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		<title>Democrats block LePage’s testimony on budget</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/democrats-block-lepages-testimony-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA – Sen. Dawn Hill (D-York), chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs, refused to allow Gov. Paul LePage to testify to budget writers on Sunday regarding the May 28 deadline the Department of Health and Human Services is facing. Hill’s decision to censor the governor came during an unusual weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moody: Rhode Island should eliminate sales tax</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/moody-rhode-island-eliminate-sales-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tax economist and CEO of The Maine Heritage Policy Center J. Scott Moody testified Wednesday before the Rhode Island House of Representatives in support of a proposal to eliminate entirely that state&#8217;s sales tax. As Maine&#8217;s own Legislature debates the so-called Gang of Eleven&#8217;s proposal to expand the sales tax base and increase the sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS budget deadline looms, LePage asks Eves-Alfond: What’s your plan?</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/lepage-eves-alfond-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/lepage-eves-alfond-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA - Gov. Paul R. LePage on Friday delivered a letter to to Democratic leaders challenging their decision to merge payment of Medicaid debt with Medicaid expansion. &#8220;While Democratic leadership is engaging in Washington-style politics and strong-arming members of its caucus to vote against the wishes of the Maine people, crisis is looming that will affect our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Labor Exempt Under Gang’s Cut-and-Paste Tax Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/big-labor-exempt-gangs-cut-and-paste-tax-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/big-labor-exempt-gangs-cut-and-paste-tax-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA &#8211; Top lawmakers on the so-called Gang of Eleven said Friday during a work session of the Legislature&#8217;s Taxation Committee that services provided by labor unions will be exempt under their proposed expansion of Maine&#8217;s tax code. The revelation came about after Sen. Doug Thomas (R-Somerset), the Tax Committee&#8217;s top Republican, asked the plan&#8217;s supporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Collins: IRS’s abuses part of pattern in Obama administration</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/sen-collins-irss-abuses-part-pattern-obama-administration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/sen-collins-irss-abuses-part-pattern-obama-administration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal agency in Washington.  It is absolutely essential that it always remain above politics, yet we discovered recently that the IRS is failing in this mission.  I am appalled by the abuses of power at the IRS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Democrat M.I.A. as Eves-Alfond take hospital debt hostage</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/top-democrat-m-i-a-eves-alfond-hospital-debt-hostage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/top-democrat-m-i-a-eves-alfond-hospital-debt-hostage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats, led by Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Portland) and House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) announced Thursday that the Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee would combine Gov. Paul R. LePage’s hospital repayment bill with a separate proposal to expand Medicaid. “Later this afternoon, our proposal will be taken up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS votes to repeal 2-year limit on MaineCare coverage for methadone</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/hhs-votes-repeal-2-year-limit-mainecare-coverage-methadone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/hhs-votes-repeal-2-year-limit-mainecare-coverage-methadone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA – The Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee voted Wednesday against limiting Medicaid coverage of methadone and suboxone treatments, and in favor of repealing the two-year limit on reimbursement for the controversial opiate addiction treatment drugs. Members of the HHS Committee voted mostly along party lines as they rejected a Republican-backed bill (L.D. 802) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic infighting over welfare expansion threatens hospital repayment</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/democratic-infighting-welfare-expansion-threatens-hospital-repayment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/democratic-infighting-welfare-expansion-threatens-hospital-repayment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA &#8211; Democratic infighting continued at the State House on Wednesday as members of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee voted to peer pressure the Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee to combine Gov. Paul R. LePage&#8217;s hospital repayment plan with a Medicaid expansion bill. “In a 10-4 vote, the Majority of the Joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M.D. Harmon: The Denier-in-Chief</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/m-d-harmon-denier-in-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/m-d-harmon-denier-in-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to be denied.&#8221; &#8211; Justice John Marshall, in McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819, slightly paraphrasing a statement made by Daniel Webster during arguments in the case. Members of the tea party movement have &#8220;acted like terrorists.” &#8211; Vice President Joe Biden, quoted by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-Ed: Life, Liberty and the Gang of Eleven</title>
		<link>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/op-ed-life-liberty-gang-eleven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themainewire.com/2013/05/op-ed-life-liberty-gang-eleven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themainewire.com/?p=6558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here, I’d like to discuss the so-called Gang of Eleven’s LD 1496, designated “An Act to Modernize and Simplify the Tax Code.” This bill should actually be named “An Act to Increase Tax Revenues While Sponsors Croon ‘Don’t Tax You, Don’t Tax Me, Tax the One Behind That Tree.’” Why?  Referring to the current version [...]]]></description>
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